"The real hype will be Kirtsen listening about this," Kate joked as they walked together, with their arms locked. Kate kept her eyes down on the grass quite often, far more worried about missing something she doesn't want to step on, even though she is aware Matt would warn her. "You know, messed up as Stick was, I gotta admit that everything he taught you was pretty incredible." And it made Matt the man she had...

It made her best friend as she knows him.

"I'm not surprised, considering the stuff you and Laura were talking about." She was well aware that this was not something Matt could always switch off. But when his attention was divided as it was today, that wasn't so surprising. "And hey, don't worry about it. You and Peter? The fact that you even realized I was having a rough day was enough to make it better." Kate rested her head against his shoulder. "You took real good care of me. Even Clint was glad to hear about it."